Abstract

Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, and other items pertaining to the Cornell University Department of Physics, primarily from the 1880s through the 1950s, along with some later memoirs and histories of the Department and those associated with it.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photographs, notes, diagrams, publications, and other items pertaining to Cornell physics professors William A. Anthony, Frederick Bedell, Ernest G. Merritt, George S. Moler, Edward L. Nichols, and Floyd K. Richtmyer, as well as physicist Ernest Fox Nichols (Cornell University M.S. 1892); the correspondence pertains to efforts to obtain the biographical material, departmental administration, the study of physics, and other professional...